Product Owner - Senior Consultant, Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Locations: Minneapolis/Minnesota

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com .

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program, and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide several Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!

The Role

Our Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for Product Owner/s to join our team.

We're looking for a Senior Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior consultant, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in People Care initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you!

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Responsibilities

• Domain / functional consultant experienced in Banking, Financial Services, Asset & Wealth Management, Capital Markets required

• Manage and prioritize backlogs, collaborating and representing Business Stakeholders in developing impactful product features

• Lead conversations between the Business and Technology to determine the what and the how of the product features

• Partners with Product Managers and Directors to elaborate features and user stories for planning cycles.

• Develops and writes user stories that align to the product features, ensuring that user stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) and oversees their delivery to meet the Definition of Done (DoD).

• Develop partnerships with other technical and operational teams and maintain working rapport with others, leveraging these relationships to meet common project milestone/goal

• Accountable for ensuring all necessary testing completed for each feature

• Collaborates closely with the scrum master to ensure all scrum ceremonies are followed in a disciplined manner

• Excellent communication and coordination skills

• Ability to make quick informed decision and understand the clear priority and escalate as needed

• Must be creative to deliver innovative solutions to address critical business needs. Highly agile, and ability to quickly pivot the plan and execute.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree from an accredited college or university and equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum 5 years of Product Owner experience in Wealth Management/ Capital Markets/Banking & Financial Services, move money tool and onboarding experience is mandatory
• Should be able to coordinate well with business and product and independently work to analyze and propose the solutions.
• Hands-on experience with large integration products & platforms
• Efficiently deals with cross-functional teams on impact analysis and dependencies
• Excellent communication and Leadership skills.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Data Analysis skills, SAFe Agile Experience (Epics, Stories, Working in Scrum/Sprint)
• Strong product background and the ability to generate new-gen business ideas and convert them into tangible product features
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving and developing/integrating products from scratch
• Experience in bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model
• Ability to handle ambiguity and white space.
• Demonstrated examples of building and launching products
• The embodiment of Cognizant's Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way

• Certifications in SAFe POPM and SAFE Agile is a plus

• Alignment to the working model based on Customer needs

Benefits

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer:

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Work Authorization:

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

• Cognizant is a global community with more than 345,000 associates around the world.
• We don't just dream of a better way - we make it happen.
• We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what's right.
• We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that's right for you.

About us:
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, helping organizations modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they stay ahead in a fast-changing world.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer:
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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